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Article #621477Re: Old word processors
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:01
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:01
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On 3/26/2018 10:03 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-03-26, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > >> Yes, the TTY 33 felt like a manual, not an electric. I wonder if >> that was intentional to slow fast typists down, though the >> machine could handle 10 characters/sec (about 100 words/minute), >> which is pretty fast. >> >> I don't know the internals of the 33. Older teletypes were >> somewhat manual internally, that is, depressing a key lowered >> a lever which activated 'code bars' which were notched to generate >> the character code. The model 33 was intended to be a light duty >> occasional use machine, not a full time computer terminal, even >> though many places used it as such. >> >> Later model Teletypes were better, and competing machines were >> better. I don't know about the model 35--the heavy duty version. > > I think the problem is that fast typists tend to type characters > in bursts. Even though it averages out to 10 characters per second, > some of those bursts come in considerably faster. The Teletype > keybaord, on the other hand, wanted a consistent 10 characters > per second; bursts wouldn't work. In addition, it was hard to > type fast given the long key travel and high pressure required. > Typists on manual typewrites... had to type in rhythm. That was the important thing, rather than the speed. If you got out of rhythm, the keys would jam. Unlike a computer keyboard, when you type "the"... you can *not* hit the t-h in rapid succession. You have to stay in a rhythmic pattern. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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